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Probably the first book about Africa most Westerners my age read was written by a European. Most likely it was Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, with its depiction of the white man who was deemed to have gone crazy because he went "native&q... more

In the preface to Front End Drupal, Drupal founder Dries Buytaert gives a candid analysis of one of the main challenges facing the Drupal project: the lack of designers to help make Drupal sites more visually appealing. Drupal has a stigma of being a... more

It has been a while since I had read anything about Harry Dresden, wizard for hire. Turn Coat is the 11th book in The Dresden Files series that's seen Harry go from a lowly wizard working as a private investigator to being a Warden, one of the wizard... more

Babies of all species hold a nearly universal appeal, whether our own tiny, bright-eyed bundles of joy, tiny kittens or even sweet young porcupettes. However, you won’t find juvenile porcupines at the local petting zoo, and in fact it would be... more

In The Master, Colm Toibin offers the reader a style and content quite different from his other novels. In a sense, the book is an act of homage to Henry James, a recognition of a creative debt, perhaps, owed by Colm Toibin to the great American writ... more

For many of us, grunge stands as the last significant movement to hit rock music. Thanks to changes in the industry as a whole, it is unlikely that such a seismic shift in the culture will come again anytime soon. Over the years, a number of books ha... more